Computational Precision Health

CPH Seminar: Charles Whittaker, PhD, "The Public Health Impact of Virus Evolution – Insights from the P.1/Gamma SARS-CoV-2 Variant in Brazil" –December 10, 1-2 pm PST via Zoom Please register by 10:00 AM ON DATE OF SEMINAR to receive link. Join us for the CPH December Seminar on December 10, 2025, 1-2 PM PST, via Zoom. Charles Whittaker, PhD, will speak on "The Public…

Join us for the last CPH seminar of the year! This Weds 12/10 1-2 PM Charlie Whittaker delivers "The Public Health Impact of Virus Evolution–Insights from the P.1/Gamma SARS-CoV-2 Variant in Brazil." Register here: buff.ly/2wiwku6

Interest in AI for social impact? Join us on December 2nd as CTML’s Dr. Laura Balzer presents her latest research during #BerkeleyPublicHealth’s virtual Latest in Public Health Research series.

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and UCSF researchers released Pillar-0, an open-source AI model that detects cancer, brain hemorrhages, and other medical conditions from a single CT or MRI image with unprecedented accuracy.
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CPH Seminar Charles Whittaker, PhD Quantifying the impact of a sarbecovirus vaccine in a future SARS-X pandemic : December 10, 1-2 pm PST via Zoom Please register by 10:00 AM ON DATE OF SEMINAR to receive link. Join us for the CPH December Seminar on December 10, 2025, 1-2 PM PST, via Zoom. Charles Whittaker, PhD, will speak on "Quantifying…

Dec. 10, 1-2 PM PT. CPH and @publichealth.berkeley.edu Prof. Charlie Whittaker gives the CPH seminar on "Quantifying the impact of a sarbecovirus vaccine in a future SARS-X pandemic." Via Zoom. Register here:

Artificial intelligence for modelling infectious disease epidemics Featuring: Serina Chang, PhD.

CPH and Berkeley EECS Prof. @serinachang5.bsky.social on using AI to improve infectious disease epidemiology, integrate diverse data sources for better outbreak control, and enable robust and equitable public health action.#AI4Good #pandemic

Artificial Intelligence Across the JAMA Network: Call for Papers Few technologies have generated enthusiasm in medicine as rapidly and intensely as artificial intelligence (AI), often outstripping the research community’s capacity to study its impact. The…

ICYMI--JAMA editors (including CPH faculty Dr Yulin Hswen) call for papers across multiple journals examining AI use in clinical context. buff.ly/bexuGXw

Today 12–1 PM PT! Join the UCSF AI Seminar, “Interpretability and Human+AI Interaction for AI Decision Support in Health” presented by Finale Doshi-Velez, PhD, MSc.

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Computational models for quantifying and allocating vaccines in a future pandemic Featuring: Charles Whittaker, PhD.

CPH and @publichealth.berkeley.edu's Dr. Charles Whittaker on computational methods to model and do better on pandemic preparedness and vaccination. #pandemicpreparedness #AI4H #SARS

At #JupyterCon2025 ? Tomorrow 9-12:30 workshop/tutorial on new open platform for streaming data from wearables for health. And Tue. 4:55pm - 5:20pm session on bridging wearables, clinical data & computational workflow with @IdaSim.bsky.social and @FernandoPerez.org

AMIA New Investigator Award The AMIA New Investigator Award recognizes an i

Congrats to A Jay Holmgren, recipient of the prestigious 2025 AMIA New Investigator award for groundbreaking work on how digital health and IT shape care. @amia.org
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Nov. 7, 12-1PM. Finale Doshi-Velez presents “Interpretability and Human+AI Interaction for AI Decision Support in Health.”Mission Hall MH-1400 or via Zoom. Register here: ucsf.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

At the Oxford Global Precision Medicine conference in SF? Dont' miss keynote tomorrow AM by CPH's @IdaSim.bsky.social on AI, data integration, and how a new approach to digital infrastructure could scale personalised healthcare across clinical and research settings @OGPREMED #digitalhealth

This Wed, @djaganath.bsky.social MD delivers the CPH seminar on TB biomarkers, and moving from discovery to practice. Join us! Oct 22 1-2 PT Via Zoom. @ucsfchildrens.bsky.social Register here: buff.ly/7OsMIyY

Getting ready for JupyterCon 2025: How UC Berkeley is Using Jupyter to Support Healthcare providers, Geospatial Data, and Data Science Education | Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) BIDS events are the foundation of the community, where people gather and share. Read reports on those events and other relevant items of interest to the data science community.

Heading to JupyterCon in San Diego? On Nov. 4, 4:55 - 5:20pm, check out JupyterHealth: bridging wearables, clinical data & computation with @IdaSim.bsky.social and @Fernandoperez.org. Also an 11/3 am workshop with JP Pollak Jessalyn Dunn & co. Info here! buff.ly/ZYVb5Rs @UCBIDS.bsky.social

Honoring Atul Butte's Enduring Legacy Seminar The October AI seminar will honor Atul Butte's enduring legacy by showcasing projects built on the computational ecosystem he helped create at UCSF.

Fri., Oct. 31 1-2pm PT via Zoom and in-person at Mission Hall MH-1400. Honoring the many contributions to the UCSF computational ecosystem by @atulbutte.bsky.social. Cosponsored by CPH. Register here: buff.ly/rzyaoUz

Reza Abbasi-Asl and colleagues from UCSF & @alleninstitute.org in @nature.com on their CellTransformer, an AI model creating a fine-grained map of the brain at unprecedented detail and scale. #neurology buff.ly/s7fEGQP

Bedside to Bench: Reinventing Medicine with AI - September 18, 2025 - USC Schaeffer Ziad Obermeyer works at the intersection of medicine and AI, asking fundamental questions about how data can transform health and healthcare. He is - Bedside to Bench: Reinventing Medicine with AI…

Tomorrow, Oct. 14, 2-3:30 PT. CPH and @berkeleypublichlth.bsky.social faculty Ziad Obermeyer presents on “Bedside to Bench: Reinventing Medicine with AI” at @schaeffer.usc.edu (and via Zoom) buff.ly/lJgS5N9

Congrats to CPH's Adam Yala, collaborator Maggie Chung, MD and team, honored with UCSF Carroll Innovation award for bold, disruptive research on vision/language models for improved diagnosis. Pioneering work and a great honor! UCSF Radiology

This medical startup uses LLMs to run appointments and make diagnoses “Our focus is really on what we can do to pull the doctor out of the visit,” says Akido’s CTO.

CPH and @UC Berkeley EECS Prof. @emmapierson.bsky.social on whether AI use to remove the doctor from medical visits is really what we need--in MIT Tech Review @technologyreview.com

Relational Health AI and Respect for Persons | Ida Sim | Discussion Forum on Emerging ELSI Issues September 2025: This month, Dr. Ida Sim discussed relational AI in healthcare and its impact on respecting all persons, including patients and clinicians. With generative AI, machines now used…

ICYMI. Watch CPH's @idasim.bsky.social talk to the NIH's Bridge2AI about the new ethics required for doctor/patient interactions in the age of "relational" AI. #GenAI

Why elected leaders began to speak more positively about immigration 75 years ago. One figure explains the Cold War’s influence on America’s immigration past – and what’s happening now.

@goodauth.bluesky.social analyzes shifting political speech on immigration---building on work by CPH's Serina Chang and Dan Jurofsky and co. goodauthority.org/news/why-ele...

Join us Oct 22 1-2 PT for the CPH seminar: DevanJanagath, MD, MPH on Biomarkers for Tuberculosis Diagnosis--including wearables, computation and translating from discovery to practice. Via Zoom. Register here: buff.ly/7OsMIyY

Good news! CPH's @amalaa.bsky.social and colleagues @roxanadaneshjou.bsky.social and Tom Harvitgsen have received a grant from the NIH Director's office for work on participatory mutimodal AI and editable foundation models to improve diagnosis and tx. @stanforddeptmed.bsky.social

PhD Program - Computational Precision Health PhD Program The PhD in Computational Precision Health leverages and bridges the complementary expertise and incredible resources of UC Berkeley and UCSF to create an unparalleled and truly unique…

The CPH PhD program is now accepting applications for Fall 2026 🎓 ✨

We're looking for passionate, driven students ready to shape the future of health with the power of computation.

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Partnering to Advance the Future of AI in Health CAAI and UCSF UC Berkeley’s Computational Precision Health program to jointly host diverse, high-quality health data repository.

Well-labeled, diverse, open repos of medical data are rare. CPH+U Chicago's CAII are changing that--CPH this fall becomes a co-host of Nightingale, a global repo of ground-truthed de-ided medical images. buff.ly/FHiwBQU h/t Nightingale co-founder Ziad Obermeyer @berkeleypublichlth.bsky.social

How to assess AI fit and function in health, and how does context change the calculus? Hear from Jean Feng @irenetrampoline.bsky.social and Hugo Campos Jr (and others on the CPH YouTube channel). @ajh.bsky.social moderates. buff.ly/YBTvBJD @ucsfdocit.bsky.social

CPH: a Different AI Education featuring CPH's Executive Director, Daniel Wolfe

CPH's Executive Director @wolfenyc on why CPH is a different kind of #AI education program, and why it matters. #AI4Good #VoicesofCPH

CDSS welcomes 17 new faculty to the college in 2025 UC Berkeley’s College of Computing, Data Science, and Society (CDSS) welcomed 17 new faculty in statistics, electrical engineering and computer sciences, and computational precision health to its comm...

Welcome @emmapierson.bsky.social and @serinachang5.bsky.social -- we're so thrilled to have you in the Computational Precision Health community!

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AI based risk detection models for personalized cancer screening Featuring: Dr. Adam Yala

How can we better #model #gigabytes of #data when screening for #cancer and other #health conditions? CPH's Dr. Adam Yala discusses how he is building the next generation of #AI risk detection models.

System incentives when considering AI advances in health Featuring: Dr. Jonathan Kolstad

“It’s about the human components of practicing everyday.”

CPH faculty & Center for Healthcare Marketplace Innovation’s Jon Kolstad discusses why we need to think about system incentives when considering #AI advances in #health.
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